The Importance of Historical Myths in Scripture

It seemed to me that it's not just another question though because the spiritual inspiration of Scripture would seem in their view to override the possibility of myth. To me the strongest evidence for what you're trying to say isn't necessarily revelation though. It's Jesus and his parables. There you have a sort of literary genre within a genre. You have within the gospels Jesus exploiting this genre of parable to tell stories that are not historical themselves but which teach a clear moral or theological lesson. And so the idea that you can't use a non-literal story to convey a central theological or moral truth is just patently wrong as the example of Jesus' illustrates.